>>843676
Sounds like a fun time. Thanks for the update, and enjoy yourself!

>>843676
Thanks Liru-chan. The moon looked fucking incredible last night, hopefully visibility stays good around here for the next few days.

>>843676
Woah, I had no idea someone could have so much fun just staring at the moon.

What is your favorite Moon?

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I got a new camera for Valentine's Day. I'm going to try it out on this moon and try to see how good it is at moon shots.

Fingers crossed for a safe launch!

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Good morning! Today is the big day for the crew of the Artemis!

>>843683
Thanks, been fun so far!

>>843684
Here is a picture I took last night of the moon, the displacement of the ship and water banging against the hull. It was a quite rough so it's a terrible pic. I will try better this evening! Tonight is an event at 10pm on the darkest part of the ship to educate and see the moon/sky. It's right after the launch for us if it isn't delayed. If Artemis is delayed, im sure the event will too later! Hopefully things clear up some outside tonight. (And day! They drained the pool)

>>843686
I suppose ours. It was the first one I saw and learned about.

>>843702
Oh cool a new camera! Should be fun to play with. Some people here have some nice equipment. Just my phone for me. Which surprisingly works really well for capturing the Aurora and long steady night exposures.

If it was clear (it probably won't be) they said that we might be able to see Artemis. I just got done the general themed lecture on Mars. That's kinda how it works. One day you will have a general presentation on things like the cosmos, the moon, planets, comets, technology, quasars, black holes etc a Q&A and lots of smaller more specific and educated ones both in the theater, lounge, and other rooms where you can talk, debate, discuss etc. Would be cool if Elon was here. I don't care what anyone says, I think he'd be a quirky fun guy to hang out with on a ship if he put his guard down. Some people think he is "cringe" but meh... I think he is friends with Barron.

Have a good night! Hopefully there are no fuel leaks again. ദ്ദി(··́)

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Artemis is on its way! 🇺🇸

On the sixth day, the Orion crew are expected to witness a total solar eclipse from deep space and transmit those images back to Earth. I did get some good pics of the full moon two nights ago!

>>843755
Ngl solid rocket boosters look kinda lame relative to raptors and methane.

But when you learn that the biggest reason for the specific engineering solution was bureaucracy, saving jobs (despite the fact that it could be done much more efficiently) and politics, (and the cost effectiveness of all this) the whole project just starts giving you a headache. Definitely not the Apollo spirit on this one.

Well, hey, at least it someting. I'm glad they at least got rid of the block 2 version. Still they plan to build like a dozen of them and trash those beautiful hydrogen engines into the ocean. I hate modern NASA. The organization that they had in Apollo era defined how a white man can work together to create something great and borderline impossible... This, idk.. Godspeed tho fr, better than bombing each other.

>>843756
elon fanboy faggot.

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>>843758
Big time.

I missed the full moon after all. It snowed! I tell ya, March snow is annoying but April snow is aggravating. And don't get me started on May snow! Good weather days are ahead, though.

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>>843756
Do you prefer liquid fuel like Soyuz? Oh Apollo had its share of waste too. Three Saturn V rockets that were built for missions, tested but never used on our dime. Thankfully one of them helped put up Skylab after ALOT of encouragement but they are now sitting in Florida, Texas and Mississippi if I remember right.

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>>843761
Wait, what do you mean? Do we have both a pro government side space program and a pro private space program anon here? For me, I see the benefits of having both and fortunately they are collaborating quite a bit which is beneficial for all. Of course growing up many of us only thought about NASA and that was great until we continued to completely slash their funding after Apollo 11. Stephen Hawking advocated for a global 3% GDP spending on space related exploration and technologies. As we all know alot of good things have come from the space program.

So yeah, I think it's great we also have the private SpaceX company and a few others. I hope SpaceX inspires a new generation of scientists and explorers. By having to perform for their investors they find ways to innovate, reuse and make things more efficient and very importantly cheaper than a government program ever could. Screw Boeing though and the backdoor bribing in congress and that mess. Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Axiom and Sierra space I can't really comment on but why not? Can't we have a government program and private ones?

>>843761
Yeah, weather during this time of change is always a bit unpredictable but yeah, it will eventually warm up. (But not too fast please!) Right now it's in the mid 60s on the ocean just before we pull into the Azores tommorow.

>>843768
Yeah liquid looks prettier
And the engines sre cooler

Apollo invented fucking impossible from scratch. And did it all with methodism and safety and logic that basically all good things in the world are still borrowing from, nothing but respect for Apollo.

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>>843770
Yep they were quite amazing and yeah we did put alot more effort into safety than the Soviets did but we were in a race for national pride (and security) and there were situations where accidents happened and good people paid with their lives but these things happen when funding is high, space tech is exploding at a phenomenal rate and sometimes we don't have time for our natural discovery processes as a culture to "breathe".

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>>843804

My interie school was all sat in the main hall watching a TV (24" at most). When the space shuttle blow up. Looking back. It seems like a massive psychic imprint on 400+ children. Then I wonder how many more schools and children they did this.

I can remember watching the second plane hitting the second tower as well.
Life, eh.

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>>843808
Yeah I remember those tiny yet huge tvs they rolled around school and whenever one was rolled into class everyone got excited. For some reason on substitute days or like twice a year we would watch Braveheart. Like all the time. I don't know why. Anyways, watching it live was before my time but I remember discussion about it.

Congratulations Artemis II on a successful mission! I saw the interview yesterday on foreign TV and they seem like a nice crew.

I came ashore in Italy a little over a week ago and are still traveling around and exploring the country. Pompeii and Vesuvius was fun and on the Amalfi coast. Rome was meh, I mean cool but busy and don't need to do any of that again. Glad I did it though. Florence was OK and Venice where I am now is really fun especially exploring the other islands.

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>>843834
It was too cloudy. Here's an almost full moon from March instead.

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Here's a red moon

>>843975
drive through the strait of hormuz next

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>>843984
>drive

Not piloting or conning a ship through? Good idea! I'll be harder to hit and too shallow/quick to mine or torpedo. ;3

Back in the best country.

I can see the waxing crescent outside my kitchen window tonight. To warmer days!

>>843984
best full mun view, I've heard, specially in this season

>>843975
Nice photos lirufag, next time come visit Eastern Europe, I'll start the sauna for you. Hope you don't mind naked dongs. I'll beat you with soaked oak branches to make you sweat, this is how we greet foreigners. Spring or winter is best time to visit, in winter I have time and in spring is just so fucking beautiful here. Don't be shy, nobody will harm you. You ride motorcycles right?

>>844032
lirufag is too rich to step foot in former soviet states.

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>>844021
Neat! I saw it too really close to the horizon not too long ago.

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>>844034
I wouldn't mind visiting the old Soviet Bloc countries. I was feeling like things were generally more expensive than they should be in Italy and it turns out the dollar is down like 15% to the euro recently so that accounted some for it.

But yeah, like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania/Romania I'd love to visit. I don't know much about them and the historic or beautiful places to see though. I actually really want to go to Hungary soon to see it before it's supposedly destroyed by new leadership. I've been to the Czech Republic and Prague and that was nice. Friendly people and really cheap but that was many years ago.

I've got tons of outdoor work to do and I missed like 95% of my bulbs and flowers being gone the last month. I also canceled my home internet before I left and got a new plan at half the cost with the same company but even though they can see my own self bought cable modem, I'm having issues with them activating it. They even said the modem might be bad but I think that's BS and they always are pushing their own hardware. Sigh. It's a pain. Thinking about starlink, 100 megabit down is fine for me and torrents. Don't know why people really need more honestly. I had 600 before and my wireless was always the bottleneck.

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Historic places are boring. Except maybe the small town I live in cause the rulers once lived here, it's like an old old place and it's a hella beautiful around here. And I know the most beautiful places around here and Latvia too, and a bit of Poland. (Also Spain and some other cool places in Europe before they got overrun by niggers) But I'm really antisocial and unless you do drugs I'll probably be too bored/busy to really show you around.

And no offense, you sound like a cool guy, but you also are a bit retarded, like most of us here I suppose, but.. different.

I'm past the stage of giving people the benefit of the doubt tbh. The burden of proof that youre not a scumbag and a liar and or boring as fuck is ON YOU. And unfortunately, before you physically meet someone it's usually damn near impossible to tell, so I wouldn't want to invite you and then be like
>Sorry dude, gotta scramm, good hang, you take care of yourself
Nor do I really like doing drugs with randos either
No offense, I love you and appreciate your presence here. But mostly I come here just to express myself freely and while I feel big rush of love sometimes, at the end of the day I don't actually trust any of you. There's like a dude or two here I'd without hesitation invite into my home for a week or more and they happen to be anons. Some geniuses definitely visited here. We'll never know who they were.

Still I appreciate you sharing your little trips. I've been to Venice and Milan and Prague is super nice indeed with some of the best people.. Check republic in general is one of the coolest countries even as most Europe is fucked politically. I'm actually glad the Hungarians got rid of that soviet mf, but it's unlikely to be much better before some shit REALLY goes down on the whole continent. Oh shit imma get banned if I keep talking. But yeah, what could have helped before won't cut it now. We're gonna have to pull this shit from the roots or we're all fucked beyond belief. No one is that radical YET. Not even talking about just Euro tbh. Still a bit early though. Gotta lay low, work on your health and wisdom and maybe make some resources. Time MAY come within this lifetime, an opportunity, an ACTUAL opportunity. We'll see. Aliens + AI will be a good start, but even without that we can all see this shit is going places. Most people still won't accept my solutions, but time will come. When it's gonna be obvious enough. That this is NOT how we're gonna continue living. Until then just lay low and build quietly.

Peace

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I just like visiting places from videogames and anime, although that includes some historical videogames. I'd like to have a Turkish coffee overlooking the Bosporus Strait while imagining the final battle of the Roman Empire.

I'm sad Artemis 2 didn't get a huge amount of mainstream coverage. I barely even knew the progress of the mission. It should've been a huge deal considering we've been talking about going back to the moon for ages.

My favourite rocket is still Saturn V though. It has a classic timeless look to it.